Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. William Westley Guth, 57, of Baltimore, president of Goucher College, onetime lawyer, Methodist pastor, classmate (1895) of President Hoover at Leland Stanford, in Baltimore...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...
...judges of the competition were Eliot Wadsworth '98, president of the Board of Overseers; M. A. DeW. Howe, and Joseph Lee '83, both members of the Board of Overseers; the Reverend S. A. Eliot '84, pastor of the Arlington Street Church; and E. K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin in the University...
Several of the early dwellers on this spot were not content with their condition in the new land. Still more religious freedom than they enjoyed was their goal and they moved out with the first pastor. Thomas Hooker. More grazing territory for their cattle, and a plan of keeping the Dutch out of Connecticut was their excuse for moving to Hartford, but a more vital purpose lay within. Nevertheless, others moved in to fill the vacant places, and the houses on this particular area remained inhabited. These were, in turn, handed down in the family, sold to strangers...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...